Damping of inhomogeneities in neutralino dark matter

The lightest supersymmetric particle, most likely the neutralino, might account for a large fraction of dark matter in the Universe.We show that the primordial spectrum of density fluctuations in neutralino cold dark matter (CDM) has a sharp cut-off due to two damping mechanisms: collisional damping during the kinetic decoupling of the neutralinos at (10 MeV) and free streaming after last scattering of neutralinos. The cut-off in the primordial spectrum defines a minimal mass for CDM objects in hierarchical structure formation. For typical neutralino and sfermion masses the first gravitionally bound neutralino clouds have masses above 10 -6 M .

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Author:Dominik J. Schwarz, Stefan Hofmann, Horst Stöcker
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-21431
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):17.11.2005
Year of first Publication:2001
Publishing Institution:Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Tag:dunkle Materie ; neutralino; supersymmetrische Partikel
dark matter ; neutralino; supersymmetric particle
Source:In *Budapest 2001, High energy physics* hep2001/20. [astro-ph/0110601]
HeBIS PPN:22645424X
Institutes:Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:530 Physik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License Logo Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand

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